"No matter how many toys we amass we……" — John Perkins
"No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over goodness. It is now time to commit to following a new path."
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21 Quotes by John Perkins
John Perkins has 21 quotes on this site.
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I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.
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The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are
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The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less…
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I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these -…
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But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what…
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Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.
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I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money,…
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These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and…
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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating,…
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When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out…
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And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein…
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And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood…
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More Amass Quotes
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Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of…
— William J. Clinton
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack…
— Sufyan al-Thawri
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Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about…
— Cillian Murphy
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True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.
— Joy Harjo
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Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.
— StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„ski
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The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.
— Al Gore
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I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to…
— Socrates
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But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with…
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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You mark my words: Whenever a cult attacks Christianity, the first place they're going to go is they're going to…
— Paul Washer
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I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play…
— Noel Gallagher
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